While you were out there celebrating Halloween, I was a happy prisoner of a veritable mountain of good comics! Some were simply good (Night of the Living Dead, New Mutants), others were very good (Thor: God of Thunder) and others were a masterpiece (Sandman: Endless Nights). I had a wonderful triple dose of Quitely: Sandman: Endless Nights (it’s so great that I had to mention it at least twice), Jupiter’s Legacy (I must write about it on a future post) and Earth 2 (Morrison’s story is very impressive and those Quitely pages are gorgeous). I hadn’t read any good Jeph Loeb comic in the past decade or so, but I enjoyed these issues of Nova, I don’t know if the protagonist (Sam) is Jeph’s homage to his own deceased son (Sam Loeb), but I certainly liked the idea of a kid following his father’s example (in real life Sam Loeb wrote comics just like his father did). I had fun with the reprint of the classic Wally Wood’s Thunder Agents. And I got bored with Wood’s Ultimate X-Men. But if I talk only about new releases, what I probably enjoyed the most this month was the first issues of Three (Gillen is quickly becoming one of my favorite new British writers) and Sex Criminals (by far, my favorite Matt Fraction creator-owned property… I don’t know why, but I was very disappointed by Fraction’s Casanova and Satellite Sam; and for a long time I thought he was only good writing Iron Man, FF or Defenders for Marvel but turns out that Sex Criminals is a brilliant series with a very seductive concept). And now, without further ado, here are October comics as per solicitations.

100 PENNY PRESS THUNDER AGENTS CLASSIC (W) Larry Ivie, Len Brown (A) Wally Wood, Reed Crandall (CA) Wally Wood. The origins of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents' remarkable powers are revealed in three short yet action-packed stories for only one dollar! This bargain-priced collection of stories is a must-read for comic fans that want to know more about the beginnings of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. universe! AMERICAS GOT POWERS #7 (OF 7)(W) Jonathan Ross (A/CA) Bryan Hitch. story JONATHAN ROSS art / cover BRYAN HITCH Too many Americans with too many powers...so the government decides it's time to wipe them all out and start from scratch. Nobody ever said it would be easy. GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #6 (W) Brian Michael Bendis, Neil Gaiman (A/CA) Sara Pichelli • The blockbuster new series hits hard as Marvel's newest superstar Angela comes right for the Guardians! • Round one is Gamora versus Angela…with an entire universe at stake! • All that and comics legend Neil Gaiman joins the award-winning Ultimate Spider-Man team of Bendis and Pichelli in this one-of-a-kind comic book event! JLA EARTH 2 DELUXE EDITION HC (W) Grant Morrison (A/CA) Frank Quitely The amazing original graphic novel from the ALL-STAR SUPERMAN creative team of writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely is back in a new deluxe edition hardcover, that includes a gallery of preliminary art that's never been published before! Ultraman, Owlman, Power Ring, and Johnny Quick rule their world without mercy or opposition, until the sudden appearance of Superman, Batman and the rest of the Justice League! Realties clash as the Justice League travels to an alternate reality to face off against distorted mirror images of themselves… This Deluxe Edition features a new cover by Frank Quitely, plus previously unpublished sketch material and more. JUDGE DREDD CLASSICS #3 (W) John Wagner (A) Carlos Ezquerra (CA) Jim Fern. 'The Apocalypse War' starts here! Long-contained tension between Mega-City One and East-Meg One is about to explode. East-Meg One's Diktatorat has successfully infected all the citizens of Dredd's city with Block Mania! What will Dredd do to contain this madness, and what else do the Sov forces have in mind?!

JUDGE DREDD CLASSICS #4 (W) John Wagner, Alan Grant (A) Carlos Ezquerra (CA) Jim Fern. 'Apocalypse War' rages on in vibrant new color! Mega-City One retaliates against the East-Meg forces by attempting to nuke their city to kingdom come! The Sov forces have a trick up their sleeves, though, and with the Chief Judge out of commission, it looks like Dredd will have to take the reigns of resistance! JUPITERS LEGACY #3 (MR) (W) Mark Millar (A/CA) Frank Quitely. The heroes conspire to overthrow The Utopian, discontent rumbling in the bars and the clubs where the superheroes get wasted and complain how much he's been holding them all back with his old-fashioned ideas of power and responsibility. There's a new world out there if they will only grasp it. But what is his daughter's secret and how will it change things forever for their family? NEW MUTANTS #39 Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (W) • Leo Fernandez (A) Cover By Kris Anka • Trapped On An Island Consumed By A Super Virus, The New Mutants Fall One By One To The Monstrous Infection...And Begin To Change. • Can Warlock Keep The Virus In Check, Even If It Means Going Against His Friends? 32 Pgs./Rated T+ ?$2.99 NEW MUTANTS #40 • Part 3 Of 3! • The New Mutants Have Fallen! Only Cypher And Warlock Remain • Can They Stop The Virulent Mutation Of The Animator Before It Engulfs The Whole World? NIGHT O/T LIVING DEAD AFTERMATH #1 (MR)(W) David Hine (A) German Erramouspe (CA) Raulo Caceres This Halloween, David (Civil War X-Men) Hine defines a horrific era of fear with the new ongoing Night of the Living Dead! Set in the excess of the late 1970s we follow the world as it has evolved with the zombie threat, a disaster they thought they had under control. When the city is locked down with quarantine, a group of survivors finds out the hard way that even with the undead, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. And in this case it means a female punk rock zombie fetishist has to grow up in a hurry when her hedonistic boyfriend is bitten by a real ghoul. No more fun and games - it's time for a horror tale that rips you out of the safe zone with a fast paced violent survival story. Tired of no shambling ghouls in your favorite undead comics® It is the next evolution in the undead and you can't afford to miss out on this year's biggest zombie chronicle! Available with Regular Wraparound, or Gore cover by Raulo Caceres, a special Terror Retailer Incentive by Caceres, and don't miss the ultra-limited, fully-painted, original art cover on this month's NLD Day of the Undead graphic novel that is also a Retailer Incentive for this issue.

NOVA #4 NOW (W) Jeph Loeb (A/CA) Ed McGuinness The comic everyone is talking about continues! • The mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Sam's dad deepen and the helmet leads Nova into intergalactic conflict that will affect the entire Marvel Universe! NOVA #5 NOW (W) Jeph Loeb (A/CA) Ed McGuinness • The origin of the most talked about new character of the year comes to a shattering conclusion. • Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, two of the most popular creators in comics, bring you an Infinite-ly dramatic turning point in the life of Nova as he discovers that something out in the galaxy is threatening everything he knows. SANDMAN ENDLESS NIGHTS TP NEW EDITION (MR) (W) Neil Gaiman (A) Glenn Fabry & Various (CA) Dave McKean. The classic short story collection by Neil Gaiman and a host of internationally renowned artists is now available in a new trade paperback at DC's standard trim size. Alternately haunting, bittersweet, erotic and nightmarish, the seven stories in this book-one for each of the Endless siblings, each illustrated by a different artist-reveal strange secrets and surprising truths about The Endless. SEX CRIMINALS #1 (MR) (W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Chip Zdarsky. A SEX COMEDY FOR COMICS Suzie's a normal girl with an extraordinary ability: when she has sex, she stops time. One night she meets John... who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping, couple would do: they rob banks. In the vein of THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN and BRIDESMAIDS, Image Comics invites you to come along with MATT FRACTION (Hawkeye, SATELLITE SAM) and CHIP ZDARSKY (Prison Funnies, Monster Cops) for the series that puts the 'comic' back in 'comics' and the 'sexy' back in 'sex crimes.' SIDEKICK #3 (MR) (W) J. Michael Straczynski (A/CA) Tom Mandrake, HiFi. Flyboy finds himself increasingly under the seductive spell of one of the Moonglow Twins, who leaves no memory of her actions the next morning. Driven by a subconscious memory of their dangerous affair, and by his abject failure to get anyone in his home town to take him seriously, Flyboy decides to leave behind his current heroic identity and reinvent himself as a totally different hero in another part of the country. But everything that can go wrong, does go wrong, and he must face an even more humiliating defeat before the eyes of the world. THANOS RISING #3 (OF 5) (W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Simone Bianchi • The Mad Titan flees his home in search of true love. • But how many lives will he have to take to find it? • The book so blood-soaked you'll be glad it's a mini-series. THOR GOD OF THUNDER #5 NOW (W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Esad Ribic • The shocking finale of our opening salvo…! • As three Thors from three eras race to stop the God Butcher, the full extent of his vicious scheme takes terrifying shape. THOR GOD OF THUNDER #6 NOW(W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Esad Ribic GODBOMB Part One • Somewhere at the end of the time, all the gods of the universe are enslaved, working to build a machine that will forever change the face of creation. • What is...the Godbomb? And what can Thor, the last free god in all the cosmos, do to stop it? THOR GOD OF THUNDER #8 NOW (W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Esad Ribic GODBOMB Part Two of Five • Thor in chains. Gorr transcendent. All hope for divinity lost. As the clock ticks down on one very large bomb, as enslaved gods look to the skies for a savior, enter...the Girls of Thunder? THOR GOD OF THUNDER #9 NOW (W) Jason Aaron (A/CA) Esad Ribic GODBOMB Part Three of Five Three Thors, side by side at last, united in battle! But will even that be enough, as Gorr the God Butcher's grand plan nears completion and his powers grow beyond anything we've seen before…? THREE #1 (W) Kieron Gillen (A) Ryan Kelly, Jordie Bellaire (CA) Jordie Bellaire, Ryan Kelly. When a member of the Spartan ruling class visits an isolated homestead of Helot workers, a brutal massacre is only the beginning. KIERON GILLEN (PHONOGRAM, Über, Iron Man), RYAN KELLY (Saucer County, Local) and JORDIE BELLAIRE (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS, NOWHERE MEN) unite to tell the heroic story of three slaves and their desperate attempt to escape 300 of the finest warriors who've ever lived. ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #27 (W) Brian Wood (A) Mahmud A. Asrar (CA) Dave Johnson THE EARTH-SHATTERING CONCLUSION TO 'NATURAL RESOURCES' • The big battle for Utopia is here! • Finally, some answers about Psylocke… • When the dust clears, who will lead the mutant nation? ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #28 (W) Brian Wood (A) Mahmud A. Asrar (CA) Dave Johnson 'NATURAL RESOURCES' AFTERMATH • The Kitty Pryde/Jean Grey showdown begins here! • Utopia or Tian? Make your choice. • Can Mach Two rejoin the fold? Will she? UNWRITTEN #53 (MR) (W) Mike Carey, Bill Willingham (A) Peter Gross, Mark Buckingham (CA) Yuko Shimizu. As 'The Unwritten Fables' continues, it looks like the darkest hour, but somehow things continue to get darker. Nothing stands between Mister Dark and the endless, nested worlds of reality and story-except a witch without a conscience, a prince crippled by grief and three schoolchildren who are starting to realize that they're wearing the wrong faces. WALKING DEAD #1 10TH ANNIVERSARY ED (MR) (W) Robert Kirkman (A) Tony Moore, Dave Stewart (CA) Dave Stewart, Tony Moore. The historic first issue of THE WALKING DEAD presented for the first time in FULL COLOR by colorist extraordinaire DAVE STEWART! Along with the original covers and variants done for this issue throughout the years and tons of other bonus material. YOUNG AVENGERS #10 NOW (W) Kieron Gillen (A/CA) Jamie McKelvie • It's Mother's Day. Don't worry. You won't forget. She won't let you. • Who's bringing Mother presents? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Mientras ustedes estaban celebrando Halloween, yo era un feliz prisionero de una verdadera montaña de buenos cómics. Algunos fueron simplemente buenos (Night of the Living Dead, New Mutants), otros fueron muy buenos (Thor: God of Thunder) y otros fueron una obra maestra (Sandman: Endless Nights). Recibí una maravillosa dosis triple de Quitely: Sandman: Endless Nights (es tan grandioso que tenía que mencionarlo al menos dos veces), Jupiter’s Legacy (le dedicaré un post dentro de poco) y Earth 2 (la historia de Morrison es muy impresionante y las páginas de Quitely son preciosas). No había leído ningún cómic bueno de Jeph Loeb en la última década, pero disfruté con estos números de Nova, no sé si el protagonista (Sam) es un homenaje de Jeph a su propio hijo fallecido (Sam Loeb), pero ciertamente me gustó la idea de un chiquillo que sigue el ejemplo de su padre (en la vida real Sam Loeb escribió cómics al igual que su padre). Me divertí con la reimpresión del clásico Thunder Agents de Wally Wood. Y me aburrí con los Ultimate X-Men de Wood. Pero si sólo hablara de nuevas entregas, probablemente lo que más disfruté este mes fueron los primeros números de Three (Gillen rápidamente se está convirtiendo en uno de mis nuevos escritores británicos favoritos) y Sex Criminals (de lejos, mi creación original favorita de Matt Fraction... no sé por qué, pero me decepcionó mucho el Casanova de Fraction y su Satellite Sam; y por mucho tiempo pensé que él solamente era bueno escribiendo Iron Man, FF o Defenders para Marvel pero resulta que Sex Criminals es una serie brillante con un concepto muy seductor). Y ahora, sin mayores preámbulos, ahí van los cómics de octubre.

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